Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection (ALMNH-IZ)

The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens. Particular strengths of the collection include diverse Antarctic marine invertebrates, freshwater mussels, and Aplacophora.

Curator: Kevin Kocot, kmkocot@ua.edu, 205-348-4052 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-8673-2688)
Collections Manager: Brooke Bogan, babogan@ua.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 October 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 24,172 specimen records
  • 18,539 (77%) georeferenced
  • 2,971 (12%) with images (15,099 total images)
  • 74 GenBank genetic references
  • 18,286 (76%) identified to species
  • 644 families
  • 1,213 genera
  • 2,024 species
  • 2,075 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology through an award titled "Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics: Integrative Research and Training in Tropical Taxonomy" (DEB-1456674). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.